What’s On
Edith Amituanai and Sione Tuívailala Monū: Toloa Tales
New video works trace migratory threads across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa as the artists return to their ancestral homeland.
Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills
A major survey exhibition of Ngāpuhi, Te Roroa and Ngāti Kahu artist Marilynn Webb.
From Here on the Ground
Populated places and cityscapes converge with backyards, factories and remote railway stops. Open now!
Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm
Late night Wednesday until 9pm
Free entry, free wifi
Silent Irony
It is Christmas eve and all through the shop nothing is stirring...
In what I can only relay to you as an act of supreme irony, our demonstration model of our silent night music box has fallen...well, SILENT!
Continuing the silent theme, we would like to thank all our customers who have commented on the shop being an oasis and calm and quiet (no music, as we share a building with the library, sssshhh!). I see a trend for us here to for-go the ubiquitous festive oral wallpaper, and it seems our little music box agrees.
A merry (and peaceful) Christmas to all our customers; from all of us at the gallery shop.
A Well Timed Care Package
One of the best-timed gifts my family and I have ever received arrived at our home on Mt Pleasant in May.
Christmas Presents
'The art that matters to us—which moves the heart, or revives the soul, or delights the senses, or offers courage for living, however we choose to describe the experience—that work is received by us as a gift is received.'
Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property,
Vintage Books, New York, 1979, p.xii
Ready, set...
We all have our favourites, but some words have that certain something that lifts them above the everyday. In the case of the Gallery, and maybe Christchurch in general, this one seems to carry a particularly welcome resonance.
Vanishing Act
Tricksters opens at the end of the week, and the install crew got into the spirit of the show with a little magic act of their own.
Drawn Stone
Although Christchurch's American 'sister' is Seattle, we perhaps share a little more in common with the cities further south, in the state of California.
Selby Abbey
Another Yorkshire landmark is the magnificent abbey at Selby, and the comparison between our print and a modern photo is revealing.
Quakes and Ladders Game
Front page news.
We now have the Quakes and Ladders game featured in The Press yesterday in our online shop.
https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/shop
